Heat Training Grant

The Heat Training Grant was launched on 4 July, 2023 providing grant payments to support trainees in England undertaking short training courses relevant to heat pumps and/or heat networks. Under the scheme, training providers will be able to offer trainees grants of up to £500, in general claimed as a discount on the cost of the training or as a rebate payment on completion of training. It is currently due to run at least until March 2026.

The eligible courses are short courses aimed at trainees with existing heating, construction or building services experience. Apprenticeships and other longer courses aimed at new entrants to the sector will not be eligible for the Heat Training Grant, but may be eligible for other forms of Government support. The Warm Homes Skills Programme, for example has a broader retrofit and decarbonisation skills agenda, and includes insulation, solar panels, and heat pump, aimed at installers, retrofit specialists, and those who are new to the retrofit sector.

The Heat Training Grant was initially offered to training providers via competitive process in 2023, with successful applicants able to offer trainees discounts or rebates of up to £500 towards eligible courses. Heat pump training providers agree to:

• Offer an eligible training course and meet the other eligibility criteria set out in the application form.
• Confirm in record that trainees are sole-traders, work for a business with 250 employees or fewer, or are unemployed.
• Confirm that trainees themselves, or the business they work for, are certified by an appropriate competent person scheme for heating and hot water systems e.g. APHC, BESCA, Blue Flame Certification, Gas Safe Register, Certsure/NIC EIC, HETAS, NAPIT, OFTEC or Stroma. And record details of this certification.
• Ensure that the grant is not offered for training which is already in receipt of other Government funding, except where explicitly agreed with relevant officials at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero.
• Ask trainees to confirm whether or not they, or their employer, has received £315,000 or more in Government subsidies over the past three years. If the answer is yes, they must not be offered the grant.
• Collect any other information required by the scheme administrator for oversight and monitoring of the scheme, and share data with the scheme administrator where required for this purpose
• Provide information as set out in the application form and inform the scheme administrator immediately should any of these details change.

Further information for training providers can be found at Heat Training Grant: Heat Pumps.

Further information for trainees can be found at Apply for the Heat Training Grant: discounted heat pump.

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